I absolutely love the slide guitar of Sister morphine, Memo from turner and in captain beefheart's - Sure Nuff N yes I do. I wanna hear some more, is it worth listening to his solo efforts?

Look for Chicken Skin Music, is one of my favorites.

John Hiatt : Bring The Family

Little Village: Little Village

Ry Cooder: Southern Comfort

"Jazz" from 1978, it's a tribute to Dixieland Jazz, wonderful album, the Beiderbecke numbers are the highlights for me.

soundtrack to the movie "Paris, Texas".....sparse acoustic slide instrumentals....fit the movie perfect...like Harry Dean Stanton wandering through the desert.....i wouldnt recommend it to the suicidals...might put em over the edge

I always enjoy this........Bop 'til you drop.. [www.amazon.co.uk] ...................



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Gotta go with Chicken Skin Music or if you like a little more mainstream, Bop til You Drop.

For a good overview of his soundtrack work (which pretty much took up most of his output from the mid 80s until the early '00s), get a double CD called 'Music by Ry Cooder'

The Little Village' 'supergroup' collaboration with Hiatt, Lowe and Keltner from 1992 is wonderful.

Best solo (non soundtrack) albums - Pretty much all of them are worth checking out. My personal favourite is 'Get Rhythm' (1987), along with 'Bop Till You Drop' (1979), Chicken Skin Music (1976)

There are a couple of excellent compilations which should get you started -

'River Rescue' (1994) and the double CD 'Anthology - The UFO Has Landed in The Ghetto' (2008)

Easily my favourite guitarist of all time.



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......go for the first 5 albums .... Ry covers many of the blues artists
that gave him inspiration ..... And Paris Texas is basically Ry's tribute
to one of the greatest slide players ever Mr Blind Willie Johnson ...... Dark was The Night Cold Was The Ground



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soundtrack to the movie "Paris, Texas".....sparse acoustic slide instrumentals....fit the movie perfect...like Harry Dean Stanton wandering through the desert.....i wouldnt recommend it to the suicidals...might put em over the edge

The greatest mood music ever!

Also, check out the Chavez Ravine album. A little musical opera about the building of Dodger Stadium and the dislodging of the Mexican-=American community whose land was taken. Brilliant.

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soundtrack to the movie "Paris, Texas".....sparse acoustic slide instrumentals....fit the movie perfect...like Harry Dean Stanton wandering through the desert.....i wouldnt recommend it to the suicidals...might put em over the edge

The greatest mood music ever!

Also, check out the Chavez Ravine album. A little musical opera about the building of Dodger Stadium and the dislodging of the Mexican-=American community whose land was taken. Brilliant.

i live about 10 minutes from Dodger Stadium...an ugly side of L.A. history...the O'Malleys should be ashamed...but they prolly didnt give a krap....corporate piggies

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soundtrack to the movie "Paris, Texas".....sparse acoustic slide instrumentals....fit the movie perfect...like Harry Dean Stanton wandering through the desert.....i wouldnt recommend it to the suicidals...might put em over the edge

The greatest mood music ever!

Also, check out the Chavez Ravine album. A little musical opera about the building of Dodger Stadium and the dislodging of the Mexican-=American community whose land was taken. Brilliant.

A story I was totally unaware of until I heard that record. Excellent album.

New record due out next month too.

Here's a taster :







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soundtrack to the movie "Paris, Texas".....sparse acoustic slide instrumentals....fit the movie perfect...like Harry Dean Stanton wandering through the desert.....i wouldnt recommend it to the suicidals...might put em over the edge

The greatest mood music ever!

Also, check out the Chavez Ravine album. A little musical opera about the building of Dodger Stadium and the dislodging of the Mexican-=American community whose land was taken. Brilliant.

A story I was totally unaware of until I heard that record. Excellent album.

New record due out next month too.

Here's a taster :

If you like the taster above, then I'd recommend my favorite Ry Cooder album, Into the Purple Valley. Very much in the vein of the above style. As mentioned before the UFO has Landed is a great sampler and starting point -- 34 tunes on 2 CDs.
T@3

PARADISE AND LUNCH IS HIS BEST RECORD IMHO. EVEN BETTER THAN CHICKEN SKIN MUSIC.

Not on any record, but quite possibly my favourite piece of live music on YouTube :

Enjoy...

while I'm in the mood, a few more from the same 1987 gig :





















Sadly, this great performance has never been released officially.

ANOTHER vote for PARADISE AND LUNCH, one of the great (and rarely mentioned) listening treasures from the year 1974.

Try it, you'll like it!

His last three have been aces: Chavez Ravine, the one about the socialist cat, and the one with Can I Smoke in Here?

Into The Purple Valley - very Stonesy in places and features Vigilante Man - parts of which you can hear throughout the soundtrack to Performance. Other stand out tracks are Billy The Kid, the wonderful 1930s calypso of FDR in Trinidad, and Taxes On The Farmer Feed Us All.





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Here's an incredible clip of him playing Vigilante Man on the Old Grey Whistle Test in 73.







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Here's another clip from the same album and TV session - Going To Brownsville.

Another vote for the fantastic Paradise and Lunch. I enjoy all his early albums and have recently been getting into some great bootleg stuff from the same period.

Boomer's Story and Chicken Skin Music!

amount the hudge number of collaborations, I would recommend

A Meeting by the River (1993) (with Vishwa Mohan Bhatt)
Talking Timbuktu (1994) (with Ali Farka Touré)
Mambo Sinuendo (2003) (with Manuel Galbán)

indeed all the first five albums (up to Chicken skin) are just great !
enjoy

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amount the hudge number of collaborations, I would recommend

A Meeting by the River (1993) (with Vishwa Mohan Bhatt)
Talking Timbuktu (1994) (with Ali Farka Touré)
Mambo Sinuendo (2003) (with Manuel Galbán)

And of course the Buena Vista Social Club album. Great stuff.

The soundtrack from the Ralph Maccio movie Crossroads has some great Ry sounds.

the movie sucked but it's worth hearing Ry's tones and Steve Vai's part.

Let me add "Live And Let Live" by Bobby King & Terry Evans to this list.

"Get Rhythm" recorded in the same era, is also underrated as well.

And his recent one "I Flathead" is great, too. A real comeback album.

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amount the hudge number of collaborations, I would recommend

A Meeting by the River (1993) (with Vishwa Mohan Bhatt)
Talking Timbuktu (1994) (with Ali Farka Touré)
Mambo Sinuendo (2003) (with Manuel Galbán)

indeed all the first five albums (up to Chicken skin) are just great !
enjoy

I have the second two of these, and I can say that they are indeed great.

He does a track called 'Powis Square' on the Performance soundtrack. it's a seriously dark, brooding slide piece.

He also covered "Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground" by Blind Willie Johnson on his 'Ry Cooder' album

Here's the tab
[www.slidingzone.de]

And here's the original





BTW that's Blind Willie McTell on the Stella 12string, there's a pic of Johnson later on



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PARADISE AND LUNCH IS HIS BEST RECORD IMHO. EVEN BETTER THAN CHICKEN SKIN MUSIC.

I feel vice versa but I would not want to live without one of these albums so it does not matter. Check out the concert videos of Ry with the Banda Moula Rhythm Aces from Santa Cruz 1987 (once released on an official VHS video). They are all excellent. I ripped the soundtrack and burned it on a CD for myself.

Shame that he did not release this great, great concert on DVD. It is one of his absolute highlights.